Tapan Sikdar (20 September 1944 – 2 June 2014) was a Union minister of state in the National Democratic Alliance government of India and a Bharatiya Janata Party politician.

Tapan Shikdar died on 2 June 2014 in Delhi, AIIMS due to respiratory problems.

[citation needed] Dr. Syamaprasad Jana Jagaran Manch is a forum of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) dissidents in the Indian state of West Bengal.

[3] The forum is named after Syama Prasad Mookerjee, the founder of Bharatiya Jana Sangh.

Sikdar maintains that the organisation is apolitical (in the sense that it is not a political party), and that he still sympathises with BJP.